On this page you may view the settings made by the autoturn.exe application program and also make some changes to it's behaviour.
First is an informational line as to where the Space Empires IV exe is located, the SE4 Game Folder. This can only be changed from the autoturn.exe application.
Enable autoturn exe gives you a means to start and shut down the autoturn.exe application remotely.
There can be cases where the status of the autoturn.exe application might be shown as running while it's actually not. This will be the case if it has for some unknown reason crashed and not shut down properly. When shutting down the autoturn.exe application will change a setting in one of the site's configuration files to show that it has indeed shut down, if it shuts down accidently before it can change this setting it will falsely be shown as running.
Is the application running? will show the setting described above, where the autoturn application changes a file on the site to show it's status.
If the Enable autoturn.exe checkbox is cleared the autoturn.exe application will check on it's next pass if it shall shut down. So until the next pass it will be shown as running even if it is set to shut-down.
Next pass for autoturn application is set by the application itself and shows when it will make it's next pass.
Time between passes in minutes is where you can set how often the autoturn application will make a pass through all the game directories and check for turns to execute. It can be set between 1-60 minutes. Beware that if you have alot of games it might take more than one minute to make each pass, especially if it shall execute several turns each pass, if so it will run continually and use resources on your computer. An adequate pass time is between 10-15 minutes, but most player will accept a pass time of 60 minutes.
Changing the pass time will not change the time for the next pass of the autoturn application, only the then subsequent passes, as the application will check the autoturn settings on each pass and adjust accordingly.
Current SE4 exe version is set from the autoturn application. This site is built to accomodate only one version of the SE4 game. If you wish to run different SE4 exe versions you must set up different sites and run an autoturn application for each site.
Number of availible mods will be set by the autoturn application through checking of the MOD directory in the SE4 game directory. These Mods can be choosen when a new game is set up.
Mail host when turns are executed. When a turn is executed the autoturn application will mail all players in the game if the server automail switch is enabled and the game host has set the appropriate option to allow his players to be notified. The autoturn application will also mail the game hosts telling him or her that their game has executed a turn, if this checkbox is checked.
Submit changes. For any change made on this page to be saved you must press this button before leaving this page.
At the bottom of the page there are a Server host admin page button to return you to the admin page and a
Return to main page button to take you back to the index choose game page.